Sentence examples for Social consultations from inspiring English sources

Social consultations are often used by Fidesz to claim that it has a democratic mandate.

During its month of "social consultations" with the public, the government said the same higher food prices, if introduced all at once, would remove 185 billion zlotys from consumers' pockets and raise the cost of living by 9%.

Through the state-controlled press and television, the government devoted a month to "social consultations" with the public, arguing the need for higher prices to ease the burden on the state budget caused by massive food subsidies and to bring prices in line with production costs.

Did this social consultation affect the constitutional process?

The social consultation therefore provided neither input into the process nor a ratification of the result.

Legislation has been approved or is in consideration by Congress to speed up land expropriation, environmental permits and social consultation.

A specific social consultation provided information on the preferences and attitudes of actual users and the regional public on the intervention and its alternatives.

In late February and early March 2011, the Fidesz government sent out a "social consultation" to all Hungarian voters, a questionnaire consisting of twelve questions that were to inform the constitutional drafting process.

They started the movement last May, she said, "when we saw that the reform was being rolled out lacking social consultation and transparency".

So it is impossible to know whether the constitution has anything in common with the social consultation's results, even on the rather odd collection of topics that the questionnaires probed.

Critics within Hungary believe that the government has been using the social consultation process to determine who is with them and who is against them – but of course, that is impossible to prove from the outside of a very closed process.